The Pleasantville solution: the war on 'sprawl' promises 'livability' but delivers repression, intolerance - and more traffic.
Reason › Vol. 30 Nbr. 10, March 1999
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Editorial
The anti-sprawl campaign being waged by Vice Pres Al Gore is questionable from a social and political point of view since the federal government is not responsible for city planning. The campaign is about coercing Americans on how they should live and to sacrifice their individual values.See the full content of this document
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The Pleasantville solution: the war on 'sprawl' promises 'livability' but delivers repression, intolerance - and more traffic.
If Bill Clinton and Al Gore denounced soccer morns, told us everything was better in the good old days, and demanded that we let their friends redesign our lives to fit their sense of morality, you might think they'd thrown away their political ambitions and joined the religious right. You would, however, be wrong.
Welcome to the war on "sprawl" - otherwise known as the suburbs. Gore described the problem this way in a much-praised September speech: "Acre upon acre of asphalt have transformed what were once mountain clearings and congenial villages into little more than massive parking lots. The ill-thought-o...See the full content of this document
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